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noun
1.
a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail.
2.
anything resembling or suggesting this.
3.
Machinery.
a.
any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators.
b.
the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge.
c.
a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like.
4.
(in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water.
5.
EXPANDa bucketful: a bucket of sand.
6.
8.
COLLAPSEBowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins.
verb (used with object)
9.
to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often followed by up or out).
10.
Chiefly British. to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it.
11.
to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop.
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Kick the bucket
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used without object)
Idioms12.
Informal. to move or drive fast; hurry.
13.
drop in the bucket, a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested: The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket.
14.
drop the bucket on, Australian Slang. to implicate, incriminate, or expose.
15.
kick the bucket, Slang. to die: His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English buket < Anglo-French < Old English bucc (variant of būc vessel, belly; cognate with German Bauch) + Old French -et -et
1250–1300; Middle English buket < Anglo-French < Old English bucc (variant of būc vessel, belly; cognate with German Bauch) + Old French -et -et
Regional variation note
Though both bucket and pail are used throughout the entire U.S., pail has its greatest use in the Northern U.S., and bucket is more commonly used elsewhere, especially in the Midland and Southern U.S.
Though both bucket and pail are used throughout the entire U.S., pail has its greatest use in the Northern U.S., and bucket is more commonly used elsewhere, especially in the Midland and Southern U.S.
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Cultural Dictionary
kick the bucket definition
To die: “Scarcely anyone was sorry when the old tyrant finally kicked the bucket.”
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kick the bucket definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Idioms & Phrases
kick the bucket
Die, as in All of my goldfish kicked the bucket while we were on vacation. This moderately impolite usage has a disputed origin. Some say it refers to committing suicide by hanging, in which one stands on a bucket, fastens a rope around one's neck, and kicks the bucket away. A more likely origin is the use of bucket in the sense of "a beam from which something may be suspended" because pigs were suspended by their heels from such beams after being slaughtered, the term kick the bucket came to mean "to die." [Colloquial; late 1700s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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